World Wide Technology Championship betting guide: 6 picks our experts love

Welcome to our weekly PGA Tour betting tips column, featuring tips from GOLF.com’s expert prognosticator, Brady Kannon. A veteran golf bettor and commentator, Kannon is a host and regular on SportsGrid, a syndicated audio network dedicated to sports and sports betting, and is a golf betting analyst for CBS Sportsline. You can follow Brady on Twitter at @LasVegasGolferand you can read below his picks for the 2025 World Wide Technology Championship, which kicks off in Mexico on Thursday. In addition to Kannon’s recommended plays, you’ll also see data from Chirp Golf, a mobile app that offers both free-to-play and daily fantasy golf competitions where you can win money and prizes at every round and tournament.

We’ve reached November, which means only the final three FedEx Cup fall events for the 2025 season remain. We begin this final push in Los Cabos, Mexico, for the World Wide Technologies Championship. Next week it’s off to Bermuda for the Bermuda Championship, and finally we wrap up on St. Simons Island, Georgia for the RSM Classic. No more breaks in the action, no weeks in between and possibly no more job next year. When the final putt is played in Georgia in three weeks, players will need to be in the top 100 of the leaderboard to retain full PGA Tour status in 2026.

First stop: El Cardonal at Diamante, a Tiger Woods design with particularly wide fairways, no rough and massive greens. It is a par 72 course that extends to over 7,400 meters. There is notable elevation change throughout the layout and plenty of undulation on the greens. As is often the case with the tropical coastal locations, the golf course is wall to wall Paspalum grass. For years, the World Wide Technologies tournament was played in Riviera Maya, just east of Cancun, Mexico. This will be only the third time the championship has been held in Cabo San Lucas, replacing Tiger.

I think as we get closer to “Turkey Day,” it is appropriate that we have a “bird party” – or should I say party? Okay, sorry. Back to golf. Yes, scores should be low this week, with not much wind in the forecast. Thursday is currently expected to be the windiest, but still only 6-15mph is forecast. Golf oddsmaker Jeff Sherman at the SuperBook in Las Vegas has set the winning score proposal at Under/Over 262.5, which translates to 25.5 under par. Eric Van Rooyan won this championship two years ago at 27 under par and last year it was Austin Eckroat who came in at 24 under par.

With that, I watched Birdies or Better Gained this week, along with Strokes Gained: Off the Tee and on approach. It is interesting to note that because these greens are so large, hitting them the regular way is not very difficult, but if missed, scrambling is one of the most challenging tests on Tour. I also looked at how players are doing on long par 4s – which are between 450 and 500 yards long.

This week’s correlated courses are quite easy to find. Golf courses with incredibly wide fairways, Paspalum greens. The Plantation Course at Kapalua has some of the widest fairways on Tour and huge putting surfaces, even though they are Bermudagrass. The same goes for TPC Craig Ranch. Wide fairways and large greens, but different grass types. Vidanta Vallarta, where they play the Mexico Open, is very similar to what we have this week, and so is Corales Golf Club, where they play the Corales Puntacana Championship in the Dominican Republic. The Grand Reserve, where they play the Puerto Rico Open, is a course in Paspalum and the Black Desert Resort in St. George, Utah, where we were just two weeks ago – this course also has very wide fairways and enormous greens. You get similar fields playing all these events, without much of the big star power, but many of the same names continue to appear at the top of the leaderboards.

I played a total of six outrights. Four of them have triple-digit quotes, but I’ve seen a lot of volatility in the market early this week. Si Woo Kim is a WD, so this has also changed the market somewhat. As always, shop around for the best prices.

Michael Thorbjornsen (24-1)

Since the course designer is from Stanford, why not pick a fellow Cardinal to win at El Cardonal? Thorbjornsen has been a very trendy choice for a few seasons now and I’ve avoided diving into it for the most part. This may be the first time I ever bet on him winning, I’m not sure. Either way, I like the timing and location this week so he can potentially get that first win, which is about to happen very soon. He has a 13th and a third in his last four starts and was second at Corales Puntacana last spring. Over the final 24 rounds he ranked 11th in this field for SG: Off the Tee, second on approach, third for Birdies of Better Gained and No. 1 for Greens in Regulation Gained.

Garrick Higgo (24-1)

The big-hitting lefty South African, who competed at UNLV, was one step better than Thorbjornsen in winning the Corales Puntacana Championship last April. Before that, he was 12th in Puerto Rico and lately has finished in the top 10 in each of his last three starts. Higgo also finished sixth here in Los Cabos last November. He is very solid across the board in the stats. If he finds a hot putter for a few days, he should be back in the mix.

Islands of Salinnda (105-1)

Now we’re getting into the triple digits and I’m going back to another Stanford University connection. It’s also worth noting that Salinda is currently 104th in the FedEx Cup standings, so he’ll need to perform well in the final three weeks if he plans to play on Tour in 2026. He finished third at the Mexico Open earlier this season, and two weeks ago in southern Utah, Salinda was ranked 11th in that field for the week in SG: Off the Tee, eighth on approach, No. 1 in Greens in Regulation, and 17th in the rankings for Clauteren. Over the past 24 rounds, he ranks 10th in this field ahead of SG: Putting (Paspalum).

Matti Schmid (105-1)

Schmid is a big hitter from Germany who will be a mainstay on Tour in 2026 and has spent the past two seasons doing his best on this week’s correlated courses. In 2024, he finished 10th in Puerto Rico, 11th in Corales and fifth in Black Desert in Utah. Earlier this season he finished sixth in Puerto Rico and ninth in Corales. Over the past 24 rounds, Schmid ranks sixth in this field for Birdies or Better Gained.

Ben Kohls (115-1)

Over the last 24 rounds, Kohles ranked No. 1 in this area for SG: Approach, fourth in Greens in Regulation Gained, and 13th for SG: Putting (Paspalum). He finished 20th in Utah two weeks ago and shot four rounds in the 60s. This week he ranked 13th in Approach, third in Greens in Regulation and fourth in Driving Accuracy. Last spring, Kohles finished 25th at the Mexico Open and in 2024 he was sixth in Puerto Rico and second at TPC Craig Ranch.

Justin Lower (130-1)

Lower may have the best resume of all on these types of golf courses. In 2024, Lower finished third at Vidanta Vallarta, fourth at Corales Puntacana and was second here at Los Cabos. Over the last 24 laps he is eighth in this field ahead of SG: Putting (Paspalum). Two weeks ago he also found his feet in Black Desert and finished third. And the timing is excellent for his form to reemerge, as he currently sits 110th in the FedEx Cup standings.

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